Improvement in horseshoes



E.- M. BU M PUS.

Horseshoe.

Paftented Oct. 19,1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

ELISHA M. BUMPUS, OF ROCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,872, dated October 19, 1875; application filed May 11, 1875.

v To all whom it may concern:

of nails, and for ease in standing and travel- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the bottom of the shoe and the calks.

Fig. 1, A A is the shoe, which is made in segments or halves, with calks D D D D holders B B B B welded or riveted to each segment or half of the shoe. 0 (J are projections turned up, through which the screwbolt F passes and screws, and prevents the heels of the shoe from spreading when it is aifixed on the hoof. g is a rivet, and unites the two segments or halves of the. shoe in a hinge-joint, E 1

Fig. 2, A A are the segments; B B B B 1 the holders; D2 1) 1) D2, the calks; E2, the

bin ged joint; E the screw-bolt,which contracts the heels of the shoes, and secures the-shoe to the hoof by means of the holders. y is a rivet, the fulcrum of the joint E ELISHA M. BUMPUS. Witnesses:

- JAMES RUGGLES, JOHN H. THYNG. 

